Christmas Lights and Decor

There are two ways to do Christmas lights. One is a ladder, a tangle of strings, and a Saturday you will not get back. The other is permanent eave lights you install once and run from your phone for the next decade, which also happen to do Halloween orange, team colors on game day, and plain warm white the rest of the year. I am firmly in the second camp now. This shelf covers both, plus the inflatables and projectors that do the heavy lifting from the curb.

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Guide

How to Have the Best Christmas Lights on the Block

One ladder day, once, and then ten years of running the whole display from your phone. Plus what to put on the lawn underneath it.

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8 ft Inflatable Santa with Gift Bag

An eight-foot lit Santa in IP44 polyester with an ETL-certified blower rated to 5,000 hours.

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BlcTec 360 LED Christmas Net Lights, 9.8 x 6.6 ft

A net instead of a string, so bushes and hedges get lit in one throw instead of twenty minutes of wrapping.

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CINSGAG 300 ft Permanent Outdoor Lights, RGB+IC

Two 150 foot rolls of addressable eave lighting with app, remote, music sync and scheduling.

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Dazzle Bright 1000 LED 328 ft Christmas String Lights

328 feet of lit length on one run, with a remote, 8 modes, 4 timer settings and 29V low voltage.

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FunFanso 7 ft Christmas Inflatable Snowman

A seven-foot lit snowman in IP44 polyester that inflates in under a minute, with stakes, ropes and sandbags.

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Govee Permanent Outdoor Lights 2, 100 ft

The 100 foot RGBIC kit with 100 scene modes, for a single-story front elevation.

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Govee Permanent Outdoor Lights 2, 150 ft

The middle length, with AI-generated lighting effects on top of 100 preset scenes.

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Govee Permanent Outdoor Lights Pro, 200 ft

120 cuttable RGBWWIC lights rated 50,000 hours, installed once and run from an app for the next decade.

Tech & Gadgets

Kasa EP40 Outdoor Smart Plug, 2 Sockets

Two independently controlled 15A outlets, IP64, with 300 ft WiFi range and sunrise-sunset scheduling.

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Kasa KP401 Outdoor Smart Plug

A single 15A weather-resistant outlet with the same scheduling, for one job done properly.

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LITSOUL 600 ft Permanent Outdoor Lights, RGB+IC

600 feet of per-bulb addressable eave lighting at up to 100 lumens each, with chasing effects and music sync.

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OurWarm 6 ft Inflatable Snowman with Penguins

A six-foot scene rather than a single figure, with rotating colored LEDs inside.

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Double Head Snowflake Projector Lights

Two adjustable heads throwing snowflakes, drifting snow and snow dots across up to 590 square feet.

Tech & Gadgets

TiFFCOFiO Outdoor Light Timer, Dusk to Dawn

A photocell timer with eleven dial settings and no app, WiFi or account anywhere in sight.

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TW SHINE 20 ft Warm White Incandescent Christmas Lights

Real incandescent mini lights, UL listed and connectable to 500 bulbs, for people who do not want LED white.